1906 San Francisco Earthquake
The San Francisco Earthquake
In 1906 the world's most deadly earthquake that ever happened, happened in San
Francisco, Northern California on April 18th at 5: 12 am. The San Francisco earthquake caused problems for many of the people in the community; it caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city.
The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7, 9 magnitude, which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San
Andreas Fault. The earthquake was so power-ml that it could be recorded a thousand miles away in
Cape Town, South Africa.
Even though the earthquake was pretty bad itself, the fires that happened after the earthquake caused the most damage. The fires had burned for four days; some say it was caused by broken gas lines. Since the water remains had broken, trying to put the fires out was almost impossible to do, Because of it, five hundred city blocks were destroyed. But the damages had been estimated to about four-hundred million dollars just to be fixed. It would be actually 8.2 …show more content…
Luckily, it had rained and that tamed the fires, but by the time it did rain the city was already destroyed. There were more than 28,000 buildings burned to the ground, and the city lost five million dollars from all of the damages.
(https];\.vwwhrainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/earthquakehtml ) Gary Hamel once said, "I live a half a mile from the San Andreas fault — a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley'
In 1906 the world's most deadly earthquake that ever happened, happened in San
Francisco, Northern California on April 18th at 5: 12 am. The San Francisco earthquake caused problems for many of the people in the community; it caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city.
The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7, 9 magnitude, which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San
Andreas Fault. The earthquake was so power-ml that it could be recorded a thousand miles away in
Cape Town, South Africa.
Even though the earthquake was pretty bad itself, the fires that happened after the earthquake caused the most damage. The fires had burned for four days; some say it was caused by broken gas lines. Since the water remains had broken, trying to put the fires out was almost impossible to do, Because of it, five hundred city blocks were destroyed. But the damages had been estimated to about four-hundred million dollars just to be fixed. It would be actually 8.2 …show more content…
Luckily, it had rained and that tamed the fires, but by the time it did rain the city was already destroyed. There were more than 28,000 buildings burned to the ground, and the city lost five million dollars from all of the damages.
(https];\.vwwhrainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/earthquakehtml ) Gary Hamel once said, "I live a half a mile from the San Andreas fault — a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley'